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out YES, THE LITTLE DEAR THREW AWAY him at the Lincoln Day dinner of the New York Republican Club, And that suggests something. Why not Jim Beck for Republican-Junker candidate for President! He is an easy speaker, and able to say what he thinks. What he thinks « he has thought pretty stead- t three years, to wit, t the welfare of the United States and the rest of mankind will be immensely advanced by the relegation of W. Wil- ily for the son to private life. It is a good while since Mr Beck has been pleased with Mr. Wilson, but he has not before been quite so candid in disclosure of his sentiments about him as he was in that Republican Club address on Lincoln's birthday. In that speech he declared that Mr. Wilson's foreign policy “from the time he as- sumed office until the present hour, is a black stain upon the name of the Of Mr. Wilson's American people. His BOTTLE WHILE YOU WERE GONE” expression of his desire for peace without victory, Mr, Beck said: “ Never was a more infamous thing done by a President of the United Si In these remarks Mr. Beck repre- sented quite a considerable body of reople, preponderantly — Republicans, whose emotions and discourse about Mr. Wilson have become greatly inten- sified in the last three months. It is awfully carly to talk about running anyone for President, but there is no objection to Mr. Beck going out after the nomination. Indeed, his friends in the club called T ready named him as their candidate. He scems to have a fairly complete set of the sentiments of the opposition to Wilson, and an unusual ulty for Fossils, have al- expounding them with the living voice. But these are the sentiments that must beat the Democratic candidate next year if he is to be beaten. He will have 327 to run on Mr. Wilson's record, and if that record is “infamous,” as Mr. Beck says, it ought not to be hard to beat him Possibly our good friend, Colonel Harvey, would consent to complete the ticket. Jim Beck and George Harvey. Platform: Wilson is infamous. Stand back, lemen, while it sweeps the country ! UT there are plenty of Republicans who would not vote for Beck and Harvey, and they must be wondering how they are going to express them- selves at the next election. Mr. Taft is one of them, He has worked for the Peace 1 uc. The World con- siders that his support of Mr. Wilson's efforts have been of the highest portance and consequence in the assur- ance that they gave to Europe that the whole of the party that carried the last selections here was not represented by Lodge and Penrose. A great court will be a part of the machinery of the League. One doesn’t have to be a seventh son to guess that the stars are pulling to fetch Mr. Taft back to the bench Mr. Sharp of Ohio, who has been our ambassador to France for three years, has resigned, and Mr. Hugh Wallace of coma and Washington has been appointed to succeed him. Mr. Sharp discharged the duties of the office acceptably, and no doubt Mr. Wallace will do the same. And like Mr. Sharp, Mr. Wallace, who is a banker, is able to supply out of his own pocket the funds necessary to meet the reasonable ob! a ornate office which our government still re- fuses to support Mr. Wi has heen very active of recent years in Democratic polities, but has not advertised very much, and is not well known outside of the circle of Mr. Wilson's supporters. His appoi ment is another instance of the disposi- tion of the administration to put into office men who approve its policies and will help to carry them out, in prefer- ence to eminent persons of a contrary bias. comicbooks.com